Graduate Student/Graduate Student Instructor (GSI)
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About
Chandrica Barua has an MSc in Medieval Literatures and Cultures from the University of Edinburgh, UK, and a BA (Hons.) in English from Lady Shri Ram College for Women, India. Her interests are peripatetic – gender and sexuality, memory, trauma, and embodiment, posthumanism, critical theory, and intimate histories – and transhistorical, spanning the medieval, early modern, and the periods of global coloniality. She has held research assistantships under UNESCO, and the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI), Government of Japan. She is also a creative writer and translator; her recent work “Stories by the Fire on a Winter Evening” (feminist retellings of Assamese folktales) was published by Zubaan Books, India, and SPF, Japan.
Languages: Assamese, English, Hindi, Bengali (Understanding & Reading), Latin (Elementary)
Other Commitments:
Co-Coordinator, Critical Conversations
Co-Coordinator, Topics in Classical Intersectionalities (TiCI)
